If you choose to call the whole thing "manifest destiny," I am with you.

I'll not dispute that what we have made this continent is of greater service to mankind than the wilderness of the Indian ever could possibly have been--once conceding, as you have to concede, the inevitableness of civilization.

Neither you, nor I, nor any man, can remold the sorry scheme of things entire.

But we could have behaved better to the Indian.

That was in our power.